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CLASSIC CRUISERS CLUB

NAME

David and Darcy Saiget

AGES

63, 50

HOME PORT

Cordova, Alaska

CURRENT BOAT

1932 H.C. Hanson

Sea Bear

YEARS OWNED

4

BEGINNINGS

David has been working on boats since the early 1980s, when he first ventured up to Alaska to seek a job on a fishing boat. He’s also a fisheries biologist, working off boats in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Darcy, too, is a fisheries biologist and has worked on boats in

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